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Almost anyone reading this review will have heard of Bruce Hornsby. His 1986 hit, “The Way It Is,” hit #1 and the album went multi-platinum. He also won a Grammy that year for Best New Artist, beating out Nu Shooz, Timbuk3, Glass Tiger, and Simply Red (they got it right that year, at least). His... Wrexham - where's Wrexham? Small North Wales town - so can anyone who plays here be any good? Or is it just a local place for local people? The only venue of note, Central Station, has a decent history of getting the right up and coming bands - recently Pains of Being Pure at Heart and Cage the... I remember when I first started hanging around the music scene. I used to go and see unsigned bands live and buy their CD on the spot from the merchandise stall if they touched me in any way, and that is still to this day my favourite way to discover new music. Tonight, I was looking forward to...
See, there's this joke in New Mexico. It goes like this: Q: Why is it so windy in New Mexico? A: Because Texas sucks and Arizona blows. Well, on the eleventh of July, The Toadies came to the heart of New Mexico (Albuquerque, not Santa Fe), and proved that not everything in Texas sucks. Those of...

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Toadies - The Launch Pad - 11 Jul 2009 [Live]
New Mexicans Discover One Thing From Texas That Doesn't Suck

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 World famous in the land of the folkies but slightly less well-known in the normal pop world, Chris Wood re-introduces himself via ‘Albion: an anthology’, a double album containing much of his best work. Though officially released to give himself and those close to him the chance to listen at a... Self-made man and coffee-house performer Christopher Bell from Jamestown, New York, released his only full length album to date 'I'll Be Home' two years ago. Had a spot of depression from being his own booking agent and almost gave up due to lack of success. It's a bit unclear whether or not he...

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Christopher Bell - I'll Be Home [Album]
Silent Home Records
Look, I'm not one of those guys who get really pissy about hip-hop's loss of direction, spitting out an arguement which runs roughly along the lines of nothing good coming from it since Wu Tang's '36 Chambers'. I don't mind that the high top fade has gone out of fashion, or that like most art the... Before listening to their album “Atlas”, I imagined (Swedish) De La Mancha would sound like (Icelandic) Sigur Rós: other-worldly, probably instrumental, post-rock. The artwork reinforces this and makes me want to write 'glacial' before even hearing a note. Now 'glacial' might not be out of place in...

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De La Mancha – Atlas [Album]
Crying Bob Records
Europe, over time, has given us hundreds, if not thousands of techno artists, I suppose Kraftwerk would be a brilliant example of this, but as I said, there are countless others. All these producers/artists seem to be trying to conquer the music industry with an arsenal of Synthesizers, samplers...

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Sebrok - Vision [EP]
Minisketch
A collection of classic Kinks songs revisited by Ray Davies, backed by a multi-layered vocal chorus, this album will probably divide Kinks fans: an outstanding tribute to Kinks, or just another effort to cash-in on the classics? My personal opinion, after listening to “The Kinks Choral Collection”... Jack Penate is the very definition of British acoustic rock music. After having phenomenal success with the release of his first album ‘Matinee’ , it looks like we may be in the process of seeing history repeat itself with the release of this brilliant follow up titled ‘Everything’s New’. After... Music these days is rich with experimentation, whether it be with their choice of musical genre crossovers, or actual band line up and instrument choice. Although the aforementioned experimentation seems to happen all the time nowadays, no band seems to have taking to it quite like Shout Out Out...
Sure, Enter Shikari blew up long before Friendly Fires relegated them to second spot on the most famous band to come from St.Albans list. But you begrudgingly had to hand it to them: what with keeping things semi-real and the whole DIY label thing, they were easy to ignore but hard not to respect.... As we approach the end of this century’s first decade, those who are wise enough to understand that musical genius is not the preserve of previous generations, and who crave it enough to go and seek it out, can look back and recognise that one of the decade’s most prolific musical talents was... Trashcan Sinatras arrived on the music scene properly in 1990, dragging their bittersweet pop down from Scotland at precisely the same time as most of Britain was E'd up to the tits and treating Shaun Ryder like the new Jesus. The inevitable happened, and fewer song titles have ever been more...
It's quite amazing that bands who come up with perfect little pop songs, full of intelligent lyrics and brilliant melodies don't even get a fraction of the exposure that hit parade quality bands used to get in the sixties and seventies. Bands like Magnetic Fields, Saturday Looks Good To Me and Of...

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Foxes! - Who Killed Rob? [Single]
Catcutter Records

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 My Passion seem to be the next big thing at the moment, Kerrang loves them, they're getting bookings from the same agency as mSI and given that they look a gothic/emo combination I should be ranting about style over substance now. However, 'Thanks For Nothing' proves me right that some bands...

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My Passion- Thanks For Nothing [Single]
Style Suicide Records (Out Now)
'Awaydays' is “the soundtrack that inspired a film,” according to the tagline. Well, I haven’t seen the film, nor have I read the book by Kevin Sampson that inspired the soundtrack (which in turn inspired the film that inspired somebody else to re-release the soundtrack, albeit this time as “the...

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Awaydays - Original Soundtrack [Album]
Commercial Marketing
Richard Walters deals (from this evidence) in the kind of sensitive folk music espoused by Nick Drake and John Martyn back in the day and Scott Matthews and Conor Oberst from modern day music. 'True Love Will Find You In The End' is not an exciting song and it won't set the world on fire but,... Scott Matthews made a sizeable dent in the already overcrowded 'sensitive singer-songwriter' scene in 2007 with the minor radio hit 'Elusive'. That songs hushed reverence, haunting melody and dense atmosphere could easily set you up for the hushed Bob Marley cover of 'Is This Love?' on this... I have a long personal history with The Black Crowes. Between Southern Harmony and Musical Companion and Amorica, it seems there was a Crowes CD in my 5-disc changer non-stop for about 3 years in the early 90s,which were the early years of my relationship with my wife. I’ve seen them live a...
You know how it is: we listen so you don’t have to. I’m sure Jack Savoretti is not already on the top of most Altsounds readers ‘Most Played’ lists and his second album “Harder Than Easy” isn’t going to change that. It’s not that it is bad; it is just too mainstream and too mundane to be of... Death On Two Wheels are not what you'd expect them to be based on their band name (skate punk was my first thought especially since the album title is very similar to what a song title by NOFX might be). Prior to actually playing the CD and judging a book by it's cover I imagined my review would... When looking through the CD booklet that came with 'Juggernaut' by Drone I noticed that Wacken (the german rock festival) seemed to now had a record imprint. As far as I know Drone are the only band currently representing the label. 'Juggernaut' kicks off like a kick to the groin with the break...

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Drone- Juggernaut [Album]
SPV (Out Now)
Guildford seems to be the home to all of the up and coming Deathcore at the moment with Sylosis making big waves on the live circuit. Quickly entering the fray is No Consequence with their debut album 'In The Shadow of Gods'. As soon as the album kicks in the first impression is that it is just... I'll be honest pop-punk is not a genre that I care for, partly due to it's predictability and partly due to the scene it brings to itself (if you've been to rock/metal gigs over the past 3 or 4 years you'll know EXACTLY what I mean!) Serpico from Scotland however do try to break the monotony of...

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Serpico- Neon Wasteland [Album]
Wesayso Records (Out Now)
Marketed as a mirror of her journey from Buffalo, New York to Juilliard to play on live music stages, New York resident Christina Courtin's 'Foreign Country' sounds more like a very short trip from Bob's country bunker to Blue Note's jazz club. The former Juilliard violin student decided during...
Well it has to be said, if nothing else 'Ezra Bang & Hot Machine deserve credit for having the balls to get up on stage night after before Public Enemy and shout "WHITE POWER" at the assembled masses. Of course it's an ironic statement but the connotations it brings with it are pretty nasty. Anyway... The accompanying video clip more or less suggests that "Buy My Record" is about the typical run-of-the-mill loser who tries to upgrade the quality of his empty life by playing loud music in an expensive car, but the line 'buy my record from the record store and play it over town' makes you think... Last time I saw Social Distortion live was in LA in 2004, and I’ve been looking forward to the next opportunity ever since. The show sold out two months in advance, and while I make my way inside Shepherd’s Bush Empire, I wonder where this two-thousand-strong punk crowd (and I don’t mean only...
Dead but not yet buried, Royal City are back in your favourite record store with a 12 track anthology of B-Sides and previously unreleased material which will please old fans and maybe earn them some new ones. For those of you still unfamiliar with Royal City, the band formed in 1999; on vocals we...

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Royal City - 1999-2004 (CD)
Asthmatic Kitty
After a prolonged hiatus, Midlands 'lad-rockers' The Twang return to the airwaves this summer with the altogether more thoughtful, grown up sounds of Barney Rubble. It marks a departure from the bands 'Madchester' aping debut album as they take the sound of their 2007 single "Either Way" and take... If I’m honest, it has taken me a while to get round to listening to this record. Sure, when I first received it I skipped through it, but didn’t listen enough to base a fair review upon it. Upon first listen though, it becomes obvious that it’s the sort of record that you need to be in the mood to...
EPIC FAIL! I can't say I remember much of Papa Roach other than their 'hit' song about self harm from nearly a decade ago and the absolute slaughter of the Pixies classic 'Gauge Away'. By the evidence of "Lifeline" though their legacy remains as also-ran nu-metallars who somehow managed to cling... And so it goes, more cheeky chappy indie-pop nonsense from the south. Honestly I actually quite like The Maccabees but there really is no need for 2 of them, let alone a diluted boy-band approximation of them. 'Run' is a perfectly pleasant song that manages to tackle the middle ground between...

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Glassyouth - Run [Single]
Global Mongrel
The Low Anthem sit comfortably as part of the newly fashionable 'new wave' of Americana which has seeped into public consciousness over the last 12 months through Fleet Foxes and Bon Iver via their critically and commercially successful debut albums. The Low Anthem arrive at these shores via their...
The old saying ‘Never judge a book by its cover’ has never seemed to hold so much truth until now. I’m going to admit that when I saw a photo of Math the band I instantly thought that it was just going to be a White stripes rip-off, and I have never been so happy to be proven wrong. I was shocked...

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Math the band - Don't Worry [Album]
Slanty Shanty Records
Famous for covering jazz standards, on 'Quiet Nights' Diana Krall covers the golden era of musical & nightclub singers, and time travels to the sixties for a re-run of famous bossa-nova classics including a Dionne Warwick song. Most surprisingly of all on "Quiet Nights" was her cover of a Bee Gees...

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Diana Krall - Quiet Nights [Album]
Universal Classics
Count Your Lucky Stars Records is a small record label based in Michigan, USA with a love for unknown, underground bands with weird names. Representing bands from all over the world although most of them are in fact from Michigan and the German band isn't even mentioned on their website! The...
Shinedown are everything I ask for with my music. Their raw, rock sound; their inspired lyrics; their general likeable front as a band…and their latest album The Sound of Madness is a perfectly poignant next step for the four Jacksonville native boys. Hearing this album inspired me to delve... I wish more than anything in the entire world, that I could pick up a guitar and just know how to play it. I own a guitar, but I can’t play much more than the first 2 bars of ‘Simple Man’. So when someone comes along, with more talent than you could shake a Les Paul at, it makes me about ready... Hailing from Sheffield, The Magdelaine Cays are blatantly hoping to find their way out of the little steel mecca that has birthed some of the finest acts in recent memory. It's no easy task to try and make your way out, but with tracks like 'Tricolour' there is more than a hint that, with some...
Jamie Hartman aka Ben's Brother is the proud owner of an Ivor Novello award thus laying claim the title of "successful songwriter". But do we really care about things like that if the songs themeselves sound like utter monkey-shit? Do we? Well luckily for Ben's Brother there is a certain kind...

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Ben's Brother - Questions & Answers (Single)
Flatcap Records - Out 3rd August
Did you notice how punk singers/songwriters, with age, seem to turn into some of the best pop country solo artists? Ricky Warwick (Almighty), Eddie Spaghetti (The Supersuckers), Joey Cape (Lagwagon, Bad Astronauts): the list is endless. Ex pop punk frontman Jeff Caudill is no exception, and... There is a place set in everyone's heart for Placebo even if it's just Brian Molko's patent nasal vocal chords that are instantly recognisable or the unique grungy electronic atmosphere they create in their music. What ever it may be, Placebo are a great band. Back in the days of "Pure Morning"...





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